Medical education at Stanford gets more interactive by going online

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The Stanford Medicine Interactive Learning Initiatives, or SMILI, is designed to combine something new – the Internet – with something old – the Socratic method – to improve the education of doctors. 

Instead, the time for online learning for medical students has arrived, says Patterson, and a core group of Stanford medical professors, education technology specialists and collaborators from the Khan Academy are working toward that future.

Charles Prober, the senior associate dean for medical education at the School of Medicine, is onboard. Part of Prober’s vision is that video instruction could be shared by the country’s leading medical schools – they all teach essentially the same material to first- and second-year students. Representatives of those schools are discussing shared curriculum, he said, and they are all reconsidering how they deliver knowledge.

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